March 09, 2014
Yesterday I was on a friends computer for a bit and had my first real interaction with Windows 8.
My God.
It's full of suck.
Windows 8 is a failgasm. This is not merely different, it seems to be designed to be aggressively non-intuitive and intentionally bothersome to use. It seems to take malevolent glee in sending the user places he or she does not want to go to promote features unrelated to anything the user is trying to do...just browsing files is a remarkably bothersome operation. I asked my friend how it was working for him after several months of getting used to the systems quirks. His answer was a series of violent gestures punctuated with expletives.
There's always griping about the changes made in a new OS so I'd racked the complaints up to hyperbole. I apologize to everyone I'd doubted.
After much pondering on this matter, I have hypothesized a solution...
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It took me a couple of days to get used to it. After that, it's been fine, except I did something to my sound driver. So it goes.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Mar 9 23:26:39 2014 (OLSt7)
Recent Apps? Ha! Recent Documents? Double Ha!
Added an ap that doesn't have in installer (like WhiteRain) you wanna send that to the start menu? Ha^3! No start menu! You might be able to put an icon on the desktop, but then you have to hide all your aps to get to it.
And then there are all the user interface elements that don't actually HAVE any kind of visual interface. If you're lucky, they MIGHT show up if the mouse drifts over them, and if they do, you must interact with the machine to get rid of them. (the "Charms" on the right hand edge are the worst ones for me. Although I recently discovered another secret interface thing in the upper left corner.
Posted by: Mauser at Mon Mar 10 05:55:10 2014 (TJ7ih)
That said, the OS kernel underneath the crappy UI is the best Microsoft have ever produced. If only they'd kept the Windows 7 UI, which was the best UI they've ever produced (though far from perfect)...
For those of us stuck in the real world, there's Start8 from Stardock. Costs $5, takes 30 seconds to install, and gets rid of all the worst cretinisms.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Mon Mar 10 06:10:35 2014 (PiXy!)
Posted by: Ben at Mon Mar 10 09:29:12 2014 (Oftf2)
After two months with my Surface Pro 2, I have to say that I think it's actually a pretty reasonable tablet interface, compared to my iPhone and my Android tablet. That is, they all suck in different ways, and I think iOS and Android would be worse front-ends to a real OS.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Mar 10 11:05:57 2014 (+cEg2)
MS claims their research says most people don't use the menu much anyway, but pin shortcuts to the desktop and taskbar. From what I've seen of people's desktop (I do a lot of remote desktopping into clients' machines to help troubleshoot or with installations) I think there's probably a lot of truth to that.
Posted by: RickC at Tue Mar 11 15:53:26 2014 (ECH2/)
So apparently the designers were all secretly working for him.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Tue Mar 11 19:08:11 2014 (mpHLh)
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